How should I handle this doctor?

Irrelevant...truisms don't help. I know what I heard. Question is if she will do what I ask or fudge the truth? I will find out in a few days. I have to try. False reports are disturbing.
Am I over reacting? I doubt it
 

Victor said:
False reports are disturbing.
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Yes, they are. But that is not the case here, right?
You said you were diagnosed and medicated for depression. Listing depression in your medical record as a past concern is not a false truth.

Also, the doctor can get into serious legal issues by falsifying medical records.
 
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Victor said:
Irrelevant...truisms don't help. I know what I heard. Question is if she will do what I ask or fudge the truth? I will find out in a few days. I have to try. False reports are disturbing.
Am I over reacting? I doubt it
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You are asking her to fudge!
 

Interesting discussion. I can only tell you how I would handle it, you have to make your own decision on what you will be most comfortable with. If I was lied to by a doctor - I would (and have) fired them.
 
I wouldn't blame your Doc for stuff that keeps showing up on your medical records. It's a long story, but in the 1960s, opioid meds had an extra ingredient to enhance the effectiveness, which I was allergic to, along with a lot of other people. Later, they got rid of that component in all opioid meds. Decades later, I have back pain and I'm on opioid meds, but my chart keeps saying I'm allergic to them. I have tried to delete that from my chart, my doc has tried to delete it, hospitals have tried to delete it. All it needs is a computer somewhere in the universe that says I have an allergy to opioid and the thing is back.
 
I mentioned it again and she said she removed it, and later I saw it
. Partial remission of an illness I never knew about and don't have,listed as a problem.
I am sending her a copy if it prints for me. However, on my other patient portal connected to the medical system
I belong to, nothing is mentioned. Doctor uses an independent service she chose. She said I looked at an old record.
She seems confused or misleading me.. The records are not easy to find. She uses assistants to enter this. Docs jump to conclusions
and make hasty diagnosis. She is no psychiatrist. I feel like I am treated like a child.
 
Victor said:
I mentioned it again and she said she removed it, and later I saw it
. Partial remission of an illness I never knew about and don't have,listed as a problem.
I am sending her a copy if it prints for me. However, on my other patient portal connected to the medical system
I belong to, nothing is mentioned. Doctor uses an independent service she chose. She said I looked at an old record.
She seems confused or misleading me.. The records are not easy to find. She uses assistants to enter this. Docs jump to conclusions
and make hasty diagnosis. She is no psychiatrist. I feel like I am treated like a child.
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Of course you knew about it... you said you were diagnosed a long time ago and was on medication for it.
I don't think she is confused...
 
I noticed a few odd things on charts of mine i have seen. Such as my mother did not have a brain tumor! Where that came from - no clue. I did have doctor change that. and he did. However when it comes the the person in question, removable of info on medical records is not always accepted. The doctor should at least explain why , she said she removed , when she did not. Sometimes doctors will list things you think are not true, but the medical coding may only accept certain wordings. Not gospel, just what I have been told-way back when.
 
RedAlert76 said:
I noticed a few odd things on charts of mine i have seen. Such as my mother did not have a brain tumor! Where that came from - no clue. I did have doctor change that. and he did. However when it comes the the person in question, removable of info on medical records is not always accepted. The doctor should at least explain why , she said she removed , when she did not. Sometimes doctors will list things you think are not true, but the medical coding may only accept certain wordings. Not gospel, just what I have been told-way back when.
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my medical document on my last visit was transcribed using AI.it had cuss words and chit chat that I never said.was told by the nurse that it cant.be changed because of HIpa laws.told.her I was
distress about it.she said the Dr would put in an addendum. so far I have not seen one.could.be just in his files and not in the patient portal. nurse said Dr apparently did not.proof read before.he signed off.on it. this is a new thing . maybe they will make sure to proof read after my complaint.
 
A doctor that I find lied to me, about anything, will never see me again! Having an honest relationship with my physician is not negotiable for me. My advice is move on! How can you ever believe or trust this doctor again? In a serious health situation, you need someone you COMPLETELY, trust! This doctor has already lost the possibility of being that doctor that you can absolutely trust...!
 
Victor said:
I mentioned it again and she said she removed it, and later I saw it
. Partial remission of an illness I never knew about and don't have,listed as a problem.
I am sending her a copy if it prints for me. However, on my other patient portal connected to the medical system
I belong to, nothing is mentioned. Doctor uses an independent service she chose. She said I looked at an old record.
She seems confused or misleading me.. The records are not easy to find. She uses assistants to enter this. Docs jump to conclusions
and make hasty diagnosis. She is no psychiatrist. I feel like I am treated like a child.
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I could be wrong, but I'm assuming the depression "diagnosis" is there because of some boxes you ticked on a MyChart-type questionnaire you filled out prior to a doctor's appointment. The upside is, doctors can't make an official diagnosis based on any of those stupid questionnaires. The downside is, the thing's gonna follow you around until the AMA or other medical agency decides to do away with medical questionnaires. (I wrote an angry letter to the AMA about them)

I stopped filling them out. I pretend I didn't see it, didn't check my email, don't use MyChart anymore, deleted it. I just show up for my appointments, and the visits go as usual. At first, my doc asked if I filled out the questionnaire...a dumb question, because it's obvious I didn't...and after a couple times of that, she stopped asking. My specialists never ask. I don't think they even look for them, and that's because the dam things are irrelevant, 100%.

Another MyChart-type bit of malarkey is the e-pre-checkin, where you tick boxes about if you have a cough, who they should bill, if your contact info has changed...always the same Qs. Whether I fill that one out or not, they still ask me all that stuff when I show up, so I ignore those, too.

Main thing is, doctors can't diagnose patients based on an online questionnaire. They cannot. It's prohibited.

I'm confident those stupid questionnaires will go away at some point. I could be wrong, but I think they're a construct of the pharmaceutical industry. In any case, they're meaningless.
 
January said:
But did she lie ?

if she took it off his list of current or active conditions and put it in past history /inactive/previous conditions or 'past concerns'.- surely that is all you would expect her to do

She isnt going to obliterate something from his records that is on historical record he once had - and he did say it is something he once had and was on medication for.
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Exactly this.
 
Pepper said:
You sound depressed Frank @Murrmurr. I think I'm picking up on it because I'm depressed. Pardon me if I'm wrong; it's probably just me as usual
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My situation is depressing...so, yes, I'd say I'm depressed. But not miserably so, and antidepressants aren't going to help. Mood enhancers, maybe, but I get that from the B-vitamins and taurine in my daily 5hr energy shot. And I drink 2 if I need it.
 
@Pepper

not miserably so - Not to where I make everyone around me miserable, that is. Being back in a wheelchair is a freaking drag, and I hate it, but it's easy to put on a happy face for Meesh, for example. She's a joy to be around.

I saw my spine doc last week. He took some images and he's itching to open me up and fix the problem, so I'm thinking about it. My only concern is I'll be under for like 8 hours or more. He doesn't know I practically chain-smoke because my chest xrays look good. I don't have smokers-cough, but I'm still concerned my lungs will fill with fluid from being under anesthesia for that long.

Meanwhile, I'm scheduled for a triggered injection next month, and my spine guy said I can do as many of those as I want.
 
January said:
But did she lie ?

if she took it off his list of current or active conditions and put it in past history /inactive/previous conditions or 'past concerns'.- surely that is all you would expect her to do

She isnt going to obliterate something from his records that is on historical record he once had - and he did say it is something he once had and was on medication for.
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According to my doctor, those things can't be removed, they can only be moved...to history, or whatever, like you said.
 
Murrmurr said:
According to my doctor, those things can't be removed, they can only be moved...to history, or whatever, like you said.
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Yep.
And they should NOT be removed, when you were diagnosed and when you were taking medications for the health issue.
It needs to be retained as part of your medical history.
 
Murrmurr said:
@Pepper

not miserably so - Not to where I make everyone around me miserable, that is. Being back in a wheelchair is a freaking drag, and I hate it, but it's easy to put on a happy face for Meesh, for example. She's a joy to be around.

I saw my spine doc last week. He took some images and he's itching to open me up and fix the problem, so I'm thinking about it. My only concern is I'll be under for like 8 hours or more. He doesn't know I practically chain-smoke because my chest xrays look good. I don't have smokers-cough, but I'm still concerned my lungs will fill with fluid from being under anesthesia for that long.

Meanwhile, I'm scheduled for a triggered injection next month, and my spine guy said I can do as many of those as I want.
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You need to divulge that info for your own safety. The anesthesiologist needs to be aware, for sure.
 
Victor said:
Two years ago I noticed mentions of depression and other problems on my medical record.
at my PCP doctor. Assuming it is irrelevant and I think false diagnosis, I asked her to remove it.
After a brief interview, she agreed, reluctantly. Months after, I asked her again and she said yes,
she did remove it. Still I was suspicious because she stopped giving me paper copies of the records.
This week, I discovered that she did not delete this, at all. She lists it under 'past concerns'. Well,
that is lying, unless she has a strong reason. I will see her next week and talk about it.
Besides that, she has been good for me for the past years, and I am satisfied with her and convenient clinic.
HMO, by the way. Your thoughts?
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A couple thoughts: Asking a medical professional to alter a medical record may be too much to ask for. For one, such a change could reflect poorly on the doctor's judgement and professional diagnostic ability. Also, it's not likely to within the prerogative of the patient to have their medical record edited to conform to their own views. About the doctor lying: Within the HMO the Dr. may not be able to change the visit notes, without some management review.
 

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